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Urist Da Vinci

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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2012, 10:59:22 am »
Quote from: GoombaGeek on September 15, 2012, 08:16:33 am
I thought that bolt effectiveness was not based on mass but sharpness. Nobody can agree. In the adamantine thread someone said that adamantine bolts were the best they tried and other people said they were the worst.

Still, if you like using traps, make spiked silver balls. They're more of a blunt-force trap component and they hit three times so something dense like silver would be a good fit.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=116151.0

We DO have a well researched answer now. Read linked thread.

TLDR; Use ANY metal bolt, it'll work - if you have lots of silver, go ahead and make silver bolts.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2012, 11:15:23 am »
I am going to import stone, but in general I have better uses for it.

Namely, some slabs to appease restless ghosts -.- nothing too annoying yet, but i don't want anybody scared to death due to a murderous ghost I couldn't prevent.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2012, 11:21:00 am »
Isn't silver the ideal for mashing weapons like maces and war-hammers?
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2012, 11:31:29 am »
Been mentioned.

Have everyone bring tons of stone and buy every rock. Even stupid ores like garnierite. That will encourage them to bring more rock.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2012, 11:42:11 am »
Look up the two slit method for getting past the aquifer.  Since you're dealing with aquifer-bearing stone instead of soil, you can modify the technique to use stone smoothing instead of digging out soil and building walls.  It's pretty quick.

I think everyone has mentioned the good uses for silver, with hammers, spiked balls, and bolts being best.  Crossbows would be good, too, but apparently the mountainhome keeps the secret of forging silver crossbows for themselves.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2012, 11:46:17 am »
The two-slit method has been mentioned, and I think the OP mentioned he had tried it already.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2012, 01:54:13 pm »
Silver crafts, toys, instruments and mugs to trade with.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2012, 02:04:06 pm »
Silver flasks for military! Forgot about that one.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2012, 08:33:14 pm »
Silver hammers and maces make very good military weapons due to their weight. These weapons are good against armored foes (Scroll to the very bottom and read the chart).

Silver has also been found to deal plenty of penetration damage when used against armor, by this thread.

The value of silver is also pretty high, making it good for furniture, crafts and decorations. It can be made into the following alloys:
     Billon = 1 copper + 1 silver (no value gain). Silver colored.
     Black Bronze = 2 copper + 1 gold + 1 silver (no value gain, not weapon useable). Violet colored.
     Electrum = 1 gold + 1 silver (no value gain). Gold colored.
     Sterling Silver = 3 copper + 1 silver (no value gain). Silver colored.

I have had a lot of silver in my fortresses, mostly coming from galena rock. Your best bet is to get some blacksmiths and metal crafters to make furniture and stud things with silver. If you have a color preference, or perhaps lots of copper, you can also turn it into those various alloys.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #24 on: September 16, 2012, 04:31:27 am »
In that case, id get my best metalcrafter to make masterwork silver-crafts, which Id then trade for steel weapons/armor. Thats the way my other fortress operates. No metal save copper and gold (not even bronze) but everyone is so clad in steel because one masterwork gold craft yields between 3500 and 5600 urists. I reckon silver would work much the same, just with a (obviously) lower yield, but still...
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2012, 05:02:23 am »
I always made bolts. Can never have too many bolts.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2012, 04:23:19 pm »
Quote from: Canadark on September 15, 2012, 11:21:00 am
Isn't silver the ideal for mashing weapons like maces and war-hammers?

Silver war hammers are very good...
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #27 on: September 16, 2012, 10:02:01 pm »
Quote from: clockwork on September 16, 2012, 04:23:19 pm
Quote from: Canadark on September 15, 2012, 11:21:00 am
Isn't silver the ideal for mashing weapons like maces and war-hammers?

Silver war hammers are very good...
Against armored opponents. Not versus megabeasts and other creatures. Hammerdwarves with silver hammers should be your homefront defense, mixed up with a few others for support.
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Re: Best use for silver bars?
« Reply #28 on: September 16, 2012, 10:37:44 pm »
Bolts! A stack of 25 masterwork silver bolts sells for 3000, 6000 if you sell it to humans. Also quickly gets you a legendary weaponsmith while you're at it. I pour out a constant supply of silver bolts for my military to waste on gobbo shooting
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